verb
- Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- Become unfit for consumption or use.
- usage: "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
- Alter from the original.
- Treat with excessive indulgence.
- usage: "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students"
- synonyms: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
- Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
- usage: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- Have a strong desire or urge to do something.
- usage: "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
- Destroy and strip of its possession.
- usage: "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- Make imperfect.
- usage: "nothing marred her beauty"
adjective
- Having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention.
- usage: "a spoiled child"
- synonyms: spoiled
- Of foodstuffs. ( not in an edible or usable condition)
- usage: "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
- Affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity.
- usage: "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"
- synonyms: blighted
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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